Yea, these people want some fantasy version of Paris (or wherever) that only exists in the present day as an ideal. Back when those places were cool, they weren

Yea, these people want some fantasy version of Paris (or wherever) that only exists in the present day as an ideal. Back when those places were cool, they weren't cool, they were most often grudgy shitholes, or just coming out of being one. These are the people who wouldn't be able to stand living in the Paris of the 30's or 50's, or the NYC of the 70's and 80's, where you actually had constant background fear of crime; when you had to worry about starving. Grudgy shitholes that might be legendary someday exist today, but these people don't have the guts to go there. Go to Shanghai, go to Caracas, go to Bangalore, got to Liberia. But that would be dangerous and, perhaps more importantly, come with the risk that in the future those places won't be legendary and they won't have any stories anyone will care about. So, they go to Paris and complain that they can't have their fantasy cake and eat it, too. Not that I would go to any places I listed, but I also won't complain. As my father has put it, knowing that you're going to get mugged at least once or twice a year on your way to work, sometimes at gun/knifepoint, is not awesome. Bring on the yuppies and hipsters.